Weed Science & Agronomy
INRA-Dijon
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Unité de Malherbologie & Agronomie Weed Science & Agronomy INRA-Dijon |
Bayer Code : hryra
Synonym(s) of Sc. name:
Classification: Compositae, Dicotyledonous
Common name: cat's-ear
Synonym(s) of Common name:
Name per country: DE : Gemeines Ferkelkraut ; ES : hierba del halcón ; FR : porcelle enracinée ; IT : costolina giuncolina ; PT : leituga ; EN : cat's-ear ; NL : gewoon biggekruid ; DK : almindelig kongepen
Biological type: Perennial
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- Cotyledons elliptic to ovate, clavated tip, more or less stalked.
- Leaves entire, ovate or deltoid, irregularly dentate.
- Height: 30-70 cm. Plant with a thick and persistent stock.
- Stem erect, more or less branched, glaucous.
- Leaves all in rosette, hispid, oblong, tapered at the base, pinnatifid.
- Florets yellow, in head. Involucre with membranous-margined bracts, hairless, bristly on the midrib. Florets lengthening into a 5-toothed ligule.
- Fruit : orange achenes, scale -like, topped with a feathery hairs pappus and narrowed in a long beak. - Plant eaten when young. In autumn appearence of a new rosette.
- Rare in crops.
- Risk of confusion with Hypochoeris glabra L.
- Biological type: Perennial.
Mistake with: Hypochoeris glabra
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